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-AI's projected water usage could hit 6.6 billion m³ by 2027 -it relies on Black slave labor to be trained -it’s already been used to further the surveillance police state (Clearview) -it produces so much carbon emissions that Google rescinded its promise of carbon neutrality

Our annual strategy meeting took place last week with a morning full of discussions, retrospection, planning, and optimism; and an afternoon dedicated to presentations by junior researchers - techandpeople.github.io LASIGE @FC_UL

I am pleased to begin my sabbatical Univ. de Lisboa in Portugal with Prof. Tiago Guerreiro ⚔️ after an inspiring week in Germany for the Schloss Dagstuhl seminar on Addressing Future Challenges of Telemedicine Applications. Thanks to the organizers for such a fantastic event!

Check out the IDEA-FAST paper “Evaluation of walking activity and gait to identify physical and mental fatigue in neurodegenerative and immune disorders” It examines a possible relation between gait measures and severe fatigue Read here: emp.onl/DZJ9R Innovative Health Initiative EFPIA

I am very happy to have Isabel Neto join us! Looking forward to working together.

🚨 Preprint of our #cscw2025 paper on "Exploring Collaboration in Programming Activities with Children with Visual Impairments: a 10-Session Study in a School Setting" is now available at techandpeople.github.io/publications/ Filipa Rocha David Gonçalves AnaCPires Tiago Guerreiro ⚔️ LASIGE

I am honored to receive the SIGCHI Societal Impact award and join these incredible people. This recognition was only possible due to the work of many, CIÊNCIAS ULisboa LASIGE Tech&People Lab @ ULisboa and the collaborations w Fundação Sain, CNS, reference schools in Portugal, among others

Our member João Guerreiro is at #IEEEVR presenting the paper "Exploring Aiming Techniques for Blind People in Virtual Reality" where we explore 3 techniques to support blind people in aiming tasks in VR using an archery scenario. Preprint at techandpeople.github.io/publications/

A week with arrivals, departures, and visits. Alex Lengert is going back to Karlsruhe KIT-Fakultät für Informatik and @pavithren arrived from Salzburg LBI DHP and is already working hard. Arno Kinzinger visited us and discussed the opportunities for collaboration - lots!

✨An upcoming strong showing from Tech&People Lab @ ULisboa at #chi2025 with 3 Papers (one honorable mention), 1 LBW, 3 workshop papers, and 1 @SIGCHI Societal Impact Award! Several of us will attend to present and network. See you there! Preprints at techandpeople.github.io/publications

✨Do you hold (or will soon) a PhD and want to join a vibrant #HCI group in Portugal? Check the #MSCA Post Doc scholarships (…sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-pos…) and DM me or meet us at #chi2025. techandpeople.github.io #assets2025 #hri2025 #idc2025 #chiplay2025 #ieeevr

My ACM SIGCHI Societal Impact Award talk will happen today in the last session in room G403. Come listen, bring a smile #chi2025

Proud and excited for the increasing number of people from Portugal at #chi2025 and for the cohesion between different labs. Thank you for the support in my award talk. Stay tuned for a Portuguese party in Barcelona #chi2026 LASIGE Interactive Technologies Institute INESC-ID

Tiago Guerreiro ⚔️ LASIGE Interactive Technologies Institute INESC-ID Photo bombed you! Amazing presence everyone! <3

A million thanks to Hugo Nicolau for the kindest words. It was a great night and I feel so proud to be amongst people I admire so much and to be there with Hugo, who battled together with me during these 20 years. Thank you Pedro Lopes for documenting it!

Andreas Komminos is visiting us this week, and today we start with ubiquitous computing provocations. Excited for the deep discussions ahead LASIGE Tech&People Lab @ ULisboa CIÊNCIAS ULisboa